Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones.

The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice, to ask, "What's next for Black poetic expression?

Foreword by: Rita Dove
Contributions by: John Bracey, Iain Haley Pollock, Gregory Pardlo, Aaron Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Fred Joiner, Frank X. Walker, F. Douglas Brown, E. Ethelbert Miller, Erica Hunt, Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Manuel, Douglas Kearney, Dante Micheaux, Jericho Brown, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Janice Harrington, Hayes Davis, Clemonce Heard, DeMaris B. Hill, Cynthia Manick, Curtis Crisler, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Cornelius Eady, CM Burroughs, John Murillo, Tara Betts, t'ai freedom ford, Shayla Lawson, Sherese Francis, Shauna M. Morgan, Samantha Thornhill, Safiya Sinclair, Safia Elhillo, Remica Bingham-Risher, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, Raina León, Philiip B. Williams, Donika Kelly, Dominique Christina, Dexter L. Booth, Destiny O. Birdson, Derrick Weston Brown, DéLana R. A. Dameron, David Mills, Darlene Anita Scott, Metta Sáma, Sharan Strange, Candice Wiley, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Ana-Maurine Lara, Amber Flora Thomas, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Amanda Johnston, Ama Codjoe, Alan W. King, Abdul Ali, Kwame Dawes, Yalie Kamara, Xandria Phillips, Tyehimba Jess, Tracy K. Smith, Tony Medina, Toi Derricotte, Tiana Clark, Thylias Moss, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Taylor Johnson, Cedric Tillman, Camille Dungy, Bettina Judd, avery r young, Chanda Feldman, Joshua B. Bennett, JP Howard, Julian Randall, Justin Philip Reed, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Keith S. Wilson, Kevin Simmonds, Khadijah Queen, Korey Williams, Krista Franklin, L. Lamar Wilson, Lauren Russell, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Lynne Procope, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Major Jackson, Marcus Jackson, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Matthew Shenoda, Mahtem Shiferraw, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Meta DuEwa Jones, Michael Collins, Nabila Lovelace, Nandie Comer, Natasha Marin, Natasha Oladokun, Nate Marshall, Nagueyalti Warren, Nicole Sealey, Nkosi Nkululeko, Opal Moore, Evie Shockley, Ladan Osman